The first thig I did today, was wrap up the aft deck by getting Leslie to help me rivet. Next, I drilled the holes for the windscreen...

A couple of the rivets from the elevator hardstop were hard to buck myself, so I will get Leslie to help me later. The windshield frame...

My rust converter dried, and you can see the texture of the rusted surface. I decided I would smooth it out with some bondo because I...

My truck has a bunch of rust spots on it, but this one by the driver's door keeps catching my pant leg, so I decided to do something...

I continued on the aft top skin work. I drilled the gussets, which required moving the bulkhead out of the way after the first three...

I started today by taking the empennage back off. It always feels like going backwards putting parts back in the shed. I put the vs and...

After about a month away from the project, I was able to get back to building today. Step one was just getting the garage cleaned up...

Peter and I made a planned trip to Oshkosh, we were able to get in just before the airport closed. Unfortunately, we were back out the...

The leading edge of the VS was contacting the top skin after getting everything in place. I created some additional clearance.

Today was mostly imaginary plane rides, but also mountain the rudder and pedals. I will either re-purpose my dads original -7 rudder...

I worked on filing the elevator hardstops down today

I started by drilling the hole for the pushrod attachment. Peter had a friend over that helped him tighten some fasteners on the pedals....

The first thing I did today was pull the elevator back off to adjust the rod ends. After adjusting them, I torqued the jam nuts and...

My engine case came back from DivCo today. It is now a DynaFocal 1 case. At some point I will paint it. I still need to buy my crank...

I had a few moments, so I put the vacuum pump adapter and prop Governor drive together.

I worked on signing and drilling the VS today the holes below are drilled from the aft side. here is the VS clamped up with the bolts...

I needed to paint my VS parts before putting it back together. I also had some miscellaneous interior parts to prime. Since I had the...

An order from spruce came today, I installed some of the plugs in my accessory case in preparation for painting I also got my connecting...

Here are the dimples in the rear spars. And dimples in the correct (forward) side for the doubler. I also countersunk the doubler for...

I worked through several different things today, starting with test fitting the pedals. Van's sent me the 8A instructions. I could...